CHAMPION: A Software Design Environment for Adaptive Computing Systems and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)

Bouldin, D.W.

doi:10.21236/ada397938

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“…The CHAMPION project at UTK [8] uses KHOROS, a popular design tool for Image and Signal processing applications, to capture system specifications. These specifications are then automatically transformed, partitioned, and mapped to a distributed, heterogeneous resource network, consisting of DSPs and FPGAs.…”

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Model‐integrated Tools for the Design of DynamicallyReconfigurable Systems

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Several classes of modern applications demand very high performance from systems with minimal resources. These applications must also be flexible to operate in a rapidly changing environment. Achieving high performance from limited resources demands application-specific architectures, while flexibility requires architectural adaptation capabilities. Reconfigurable computing devices promise to meet both needs. While these devices are currently available, the issue of how to design these systems is unresolved. This paper describes an environment for design capture, analysis and synthesis of dynamically adaptive computing applications. The representation methodology is captured in a Domain-Specific, Model-Integrated Computing framework. Formal analysis tools are integrated into the design flow to analyze the design space to produce a constrained set of solutions. HW/SW Co-simulations verify the function of the system prior to implementation. Finally, a set of hardware and software subsystems are synthesized to implement the multi-modal, dynamically adaptive application. The application executes under a runtime environment, which supports common execution semantics across software and hardware. An application example is presented.

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Model‐integrated Tools for the Design of DynamicallyReconfigurable Systems

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“…The design of custom processing systems for those platforms is not supported by high-level visual design tools, and require specific design using the conventional HDL-based design flow supported by the FPGA development tools. Existing design systems based on visual data-flow design entry are technology dependent and not specifically designed for this domain of application (Xilinx System Generator [5,3]), while others specifically designed for image processing use close and proprietary design environments [1,2].…”

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A high-level tool for the design of custom image processing systems

Martins¹,

Alves²

8th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD'05)

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Real-time image processing is a computational intensive task with applications in various engineering fields. In several image processing applications, a significant amount of computing power is committed to image enhancement operations, basic segmentation and identification of regions of interest for further analysis. Such type of front-end processing can be done efficiently by custom data-flow processors closely coupled to an image sensor. This paper proposes a visual design environment to support the high-level design of custom data-flow processors for real-time image analysis applications. The tool is embedded in Matlab/Simulink, and the system modeling is done using a library of blocks that implement common low-level image processing operations. Functional validation is performed efficiently by the simulation engine of Simulink in a frame by frame basis, using the functions provided by the image processing toolbox in Matlab. The automatic generation of a synthesizable RTL model guarantees a logic implementation of the system that complies to the high-level model validated, under constraints imposed by the user and the target reconfigurable device.

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CHAMPION: A Software Design Environment for Adaptive Computing Systems and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs)

Cited by 2 publications

References 8 publications

Model‐integrated Tools for the Design of DynamicallyReconfigurable Systems

Model‐integrated Tools for the Design of DynamicallyReconfigurable Systems

A high-level tool for the design of custom image processing systems

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